Keir Starmer brands Boris Johnson 'the Comical Ali of the cost-of-living crisis'

Boris Johnson was labelled the "Comical Ali of the cost-of-living disaster" by Sir Keir Starmer in the present day in PMQs as he raised cost-of-living issues.

Tax rises in folks’s newest payslips have the Prime Minister’s “fingerprints throughout it”, Labour chief Sir Keir mentioned earlier than he labelled the Conservatives the “occasion of extra oil and gasoline income” attributable to their rejection of a windfall tax to chop vitality payments.

However Mr Johnson repeatedly claimed Labour has “no plan” and defended his Authorities’s financial file, saying of Sir Keir: “This man is doomed to be a everlasting spectator.”

At one stage throughout PMQs the Labour Get together press workplace shared on Twitter a mocked-up picture of Mr Johnson as the previous Iraqi propaganda chief often known as Comical Ali.

The Labour Get together press workplace shared on Twitter a mocked-up picture of Mr Johnson as the previous Iraqi propaganda chief often known as Comical Ali.

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The session opened with Sir Keir calling on Mr Johnson to agree there was “no place” for misogyny in trendy Britain following a Mail On Sunday article which steered Labour deputy chief Angela Rayner crossed and uncrossed her legs throughout PMQs to distract the Prime Minister.

Mr Johnson replied: “I repeat what I mentioned to her, there might be completely no place for such behaviour or such expression on this Home and we must always deal with one another frankly, with the respect that one another deserves.”

Boris Johnson was branded an “ostrich” together with his head within the sand as Sir Keir Starmer raised cost-of-living issues at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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In response to Mr Johnson arguing international inflation was behind slower development for the UK, Sir Keir advised the Commons: “He sounds just like the Comical Ali of the cost-of-living disaster.

“He pretends the financial system is booming… however in the actual world our development is ready to be slower than each G20 nation besides one – Russia.

“And our inflation goes to be double the remainder of the G7. Does he suppose that denying the details staring him within the face makes issues higher or worse for working folks?”

Mr Johnson replied: “The details are, because the IMF has mentioned, that the UK got here out of Covid sooner than anyone else, that’s why we had the quickest development within the G7 final 12 months. That will not have occurred if we’d listened to captain hindsight.

“And if he research their forecasts we'll return to being the quickest by 2024 and the quickest in 2025. That’s what the IMF’s forecasts say… that is the Authorities, that is the occasion that helps working folks.”